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• n  destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
• v  destroy completely; damage irreparably
• v  destroy or cause to fail
• v  reduce to bankruptcy
• v  reduce to ruins
• v  deprive of virginity
• v  fall into ruin

• As a British statesman, she broke the power of the unions, which were ruining the economy, she reduced the state sector by privatizing most of the nationalized industries, which .
• While the ARA and Congress hashed out a compromise that salvages each automobile's drive train, ruining the engine still kills about 30% of a vehicle's recycling value.
• Pollution is ruining the quality of life in much of urban Asia.

• laying waste
• ruin
• ruination
• wrecking
• destroy
• bankrupt
• break
• smash
• deflower

News & Articles

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• Giving 'Em Fitz: Golf's traditions hard to explain
  Golf is one of those games that adheres to traditions, even if it can't always remember why. Merion's wicker baskets are a good example. No one really knows why the club began using them instead of flags. But they've been there for a century, and there they are ruining another U.S. Open for Lee Westwood.
  June 15, 2013 - Philly.com
• Crash delays newspaper delivery
  NEW BEDFORD — A truck carrying Friday’s edition of The Standard-Times crashed near Exit 15 off Interstate 195 at about 2:30 a.m., ruining the entire print run and delaying delivery for thousands of customers across SouthCoast.
  June 15, 2013 - The Standard-Times
• Facebook Ruining Your Marriage, New Study Reveals (Again)
  Facebook ruining your marriage is not necessarily news, in as much as a few times each year we read frightening new statistics about Facebook precipitating as many as one in five divorces. (This statistic about Facebook divorce began to pop up as early as 2009._ However, whether Facebook is ruining marriages or the marriages were... Read more » Facebook Ruining Your Marriage, New Study Reveals ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Brooke Shields in New York Daily News
  My baby was in the back seat and that even p---- me off because I thought she's even ruining this for me,Shields said. "I just wanted to drive into the wall, and my friend stayed on the phone with me and made me safely get home."
• Jack Del Rio in Chicago Tribune
  There is no question in my mind that this was an early season storm capable of ruining a team and a year a team could have,Del Rio said. "We've been able to survive it. I think 3-3 is surviving. We weren't dominant through it, we didn't...
• Michael Strahan in International Herald Tribune
  Don't even go there,Strahan said. "You're ruining the interview."